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When I import songs from a CD, the songs are not appearing under Music in iTunes. The track info is properly displayed for the mounted CD itself and the songs are correctly imported (green checkboxes appear, the MP3 files are placed in the correct folder under "Music/iTunes/iTunes Music", and...

I'm having a terrible time adjusting the colors on Dell LCD monitors that I use with my MacBook Pro. The latest is a Dell 1905FP that is driving me nuts. I started by following the instructions in Mac OS X's Display Calibrator Assistant (under System Preferences > Displays > Color >...

A small thing that's driving me mad in Entourage 2004 for Mac: Some of my co-workers' addresses have changed but Entourage is still defaulting to the old ones. How can I weed unwanted addresses out of my Entourage contacts? When I go into "Address Book" in Entourage, the offending...

Is there such a thing as a flash drive wih *two* USB ports so two computers can share it simultaneously? Background: I've just taken a job in a shop that not only won't let me put my MacBook on the LAN, but insists that I use a crippled Windows box on which I can't install software. Period...

How can I, with administrator privileges, most easily burn a CD backup of other users' accounts? What I *want* to do is create a burn folder and drag folders out of /Users into it, click "Burn", be prompted for the admin password and voila. Instead the Finder tells me that it can't read the...

[This is an iTunes question, not specifically an iPod question.] I've been listening to MP3 blogs as podcasts, which is great until I decide I like a song and want to keep it. I can't for the life of me figure out how to tell iTunes to stop treating a particular file as a podcast and start...

My 12" PowerBook G4 running 10.4.7 suddenly can't see the CD/DVD combo drive. If I go into System Profiler > Hardware > ATA the system doesn't even know that the drive exists. It's just one month out of warranty, too. Aaughh! My local independent Mac shop says I need a new combo drive...

I have a Motorola E815 (Verizon) phone and SKN6311B USB cable. I want to transer photo files from my phone to my PowerBook. Can I get the PowerBook to mount the E815 file system over USB? How? Background: I can use Bluetooth to sync my addressbook and calendar with the E815 in iSync...

I'm getting an error when I try to make an FTP connection to my hosting account at hostingmatters.com using the Mac Finder. I can make an FTP connection to HostingMatters in the command-line FTP client with no problem. Details: In Mac OS X 10.4.5 I should be able to open a remote FTP site...

When I try to use less(1) or more(1) to display a UTF-16 Unicode text file, it breaks the 16-bit characters into two 8-bit bytes and the result is unreadable. The file came from a Windows machine and may not be in Mac OS's preferred format for Unicode, but the file(1) command recognizes the...

Is there a hack that will let two or more users share a joint iTunes library on a single Mac? I've tried chmod'ing everything in one user's library 666 (777 for directories) and replacing another user's library with a symlink to the first but that doesn't consistently prevent permissions...

For a couple of days now DNS has been failing on my home network and I'm at wit's end. The setup: 12" PowerBook G4 running 10.4.3. My home connection is RoadRunner cable with a Linksys WRT54G wireless router. If I take my computer to work or connect to a neighbor's wireless, the problem...

I'm starting to research low-end digital cameras (about $100 or so) for my ten-year-old. I understand that OSX compatibility can be an issue for some models in that price range. Any success stories to share or models to recommend? Thanks.

I'm trying to install the drivers for a Canon MP760 printer but the installation process hangs during the "Installing BJ printer driver" step. This is on a 12" PowerBook running Tiger. I downloaded the MP760PD302MX_ML.dmg image from the Canon site, unpacked it and ran it normally. Halfway...

I consistently find that certain websites time out or return error messages from my Mac in a way that makes me wonder whether I have browser issues. However, I've been unable to find a browser that resolves the problem (and I've tried Firefox 1.0, Safari 1.2.4, and IE 5.2). That makes me...

When I first switched to Mac OS X from Unix a year or two back, the thing I most missed from X11 was one-click copy and paste, so I ran out and bought a Macally three-button mouse and configured it to come as close to Unix-style copy and paste as I could. What I came up with was two clicks...

Problem: About 50% of the audio CDs I burn are corrupted. Specifically, somewhere around the middle of the playlist the audio quality degrades and tracks play with pauses in a way that suggests problems reading the disc. The same symptom occurs in my Mac's own drive and in a regular CD player...

I marched into my local AT&T phone store (since Mac-compatible choices for Verizon are so limited) armed with Apple's iSync compatibility list (http://www.apple.com/isync/devices.html) and asked to see what they could give me a good deal on. The winner was the Sony Ericsson T616, a Bluetooth...

Vi on my 10.2.8 box displays international characters in double-wide hex rather than as the standard Roman characters with diacritics that I expect. That is, the characters "é ç and ü" (if you can't read those, they are e-acute, c-cedilla and u-umlaut) would be displayed in...